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asked a!
rural m
forward
Highway
that Mr. Benson was "the straight
est man” he knew, or words to that
effect. And he added that if Mr.
Benson said t h e ' recommendation
was right .then it was right ^
Whit now. If Mt Benson** in
tegrity has been questioned, we
are not aware Of it. And we are
not prepared to say that Mr. Ben
son is not, in fact the straigbtest
man among the Governor’s friends
and acquaintances. But if this
Governor was suggesting that Mr.
Benson is impossible of error m
hip judgments about which rititar
roads in Wake County should be
paved when, -then Mr. Sanford’*
praise of, and loyalty to, Mr. Bin-,
son run* the risk of extravagance.
In the first place, MV. Bensons
experience, knowledge and ability
yin road allocations are — like thpse
of any-other politician — subject to
question. And, we submit that If
Mr. Benson hasn't already made
errors of judgment, he has a good
many ahead of him before he and
Governor Sanford leave office. We
might mention, however, that it
would be nice to believe that Mr.
Benson, or any other office Bold
er participating in the spending of
public funds, has achieved the
perfection which Governor San
jford assigned to him.
The fact remains that if Gove/
* nor Sanford would merely both
er to study the evidence involved
in the controversial road recom
mendation that led to his defense
of Mr. Benson, Mr. Sanford might
t well temper his blanket endorse
ment of Mr. Benson's judgment.
We had intended no mention of
this particular rgad matter. Ques
. tions are being raised all around
about the present operation of the
State Highway Department at its
upper levels. There may be no
more politics than heretofore in
the highway .department, but .ap
parently there Is no less. It may
I be pure coincidence, but there are
a great many instances in which
the politically faithful haye been
. getting their' roads while- farmers
i, with no political connections con
tinue to wait. W Vy yj
• Perhaps the Governor is not
really aware of what is going on,
Jay Jenkins, chief of the Charlotte
Observer bureau in Raleigh, and
by no means- an anti-Sanford re-,
fenkins wrote that he had heard
out a daim filed by a contractor
connection with a highway job
nkins called thi director of, high*
ys and gbjt a reply consisting of
tat Jenkins called "a machine
n burst of statistics . . . which
tre devoid of an answer.” There
is tbore talk, consisting^ largely
bureaucratic gobbledygook that
made little or no sepse, So, Jen
kins then visited the chairman of
the Hgihway Commission, Merrill
JEVans. As Jenkins, put it: “(Mr.
Evans) was mighty glad to see thfe
reporter, yessir.” But; as to the
contractor’s claim: "Huh? Claim?
Jenkins said the buck was pass
ed ever sd cleverly. “Well,” said
"Evans, “that's a matter for the as
sistant state attorney general as
signed to the highway department.”
Bfat the assistant attorney general
was out sick, with chicken pox or
something. Upon ?>eing advised of
this Evans referred Jenkins to tfle
assistant to the/assistant attorney
general. “Just walk down the haB,”
Evans said, “turn right, and, . ."
_Jenkins said that, he followed
Mr/ Evans directions, and as he
dpened the door to the office Of
the assistant to the assistant at
torney general, th e telephone
| rang. The assistant to the assist-,
I ant said “Yes, sir, Mr. Evans. Yes,
yrhat course the economy wiH now
take, but the problems bred by a
Jong Cold. War, va-ftt assistance
given other nations, a new era
of frade. and a long period of ovr
erspending federal* revenue? Con
front the highest councils of gov
eminent.,
The complexity of financial af
fairs and the terminplpgy which
surrounds them sucji as “balance of
payments,” “gold reserves,” and
“deficit spending" cause many
people * to consider-the whole mat
ter only when it concerns their
job Or their purse.
' ‘ ■■ ' -If • *. !
sir.. I agree, Mr. Evaas.” .
Thus, theorized Reporter Jen
kins, the assistant the assistant
was-now obviously prepared for the
question* And the reply ? WteH,- the,
claim about which Reporter Jen
kins was .inquiring had not reach-1
ed the pdint at 'which it could be
publicized, t i > ■"
Said, Reporter Jenkins: ,yThose
highway folks know how to by
pass something besides a city.”
And, we might add, so dobs Gov*
ernor Sanford.
K>NT TA1|E CHANCES!
Recap. Those Tires Now!
Or Pepper present*
V like HI
tion should be encouraged to 4>»y
for its own governmental service*
as it goes along. Coafidence in gov
ernment follows Sound fiscal pol
icies. ■■;; ■' ’ •. .
Perhaps one of the keys to the
problem of spending more and pay
ing leu than the bodgeteach year
lies' in the psychology which con
fronts Congress each year as it ig
urged to spend, mofondd mere bil
lions for foreign aid programs in
97 of the 110- countries of the
world.
Confronted by this expenditure
for non-Americans, Congress finds
it difficult to trim a budget for
wmcn
process
me conclusion
not defire to have all
tue powers given itunder the orig
inal. I supported the amendments
made by the Department.
The original bill would have con
ferred licensing powers on the De
partment to .^xdude people .from
the manufacture bf drugs., 'The
substitute amendment will give
the .Department the power tq pro
tect the public health but does not
embrace the licensing of drug
and pharmaceutical ftrm$. v
I voted for this amendment-for the
reafon that I am fundamentally
oppose^ toi excluding people from
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